Example sentences of "that he have been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It went to Geoffrey 's head that he 'd been cast as Mullins , the pirate . |
| 2 | He laughed , and then added that he 'd been drunk as a cork himself actually , the night before . |
| 3 | He was taken into custody for his own protection … as it was learned that he 'd been disqualified from driving at the time of the crash . |
| 4 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 5 | Daffy was shattered by the news that he 'd been replaced by Essex 's reprieved rebel tourist Neil Foster . |
| 6 | Daffy was shattered by the news that he 'd been replaced by Essex 's reprieved rebel tourist Neil Foster . |
| 7 | ‘ They pretended that Paul was hit by a ricochet , but the evidence was clear that he 'd been hit by a direct shot . |
| 8 | But from the look of his clothes it would n't seem that he 'd been jostled about much by the tide . |
| 9 | He 'll definitely be playing for the French next week and they would n't even confirm that he 'd been banned from the scum 's next 4 matches in Europe ( which ones did they have in mind ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ) . |
| 10 | The other thing that was said about him , particularly towards the end , after the U-turn on economic policy , was that he 'd been captured by his officials , and that he also , in the end , rather relished the company of the permanent secretaries more than he did his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 11 | I want to see what happened , er , it finished just where he says that he 'd been accused of something . |
| 12 | Also on June 9 , immediately after the close of polls , Jan Budaj , Deputy Chairman of the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) and a leading PAV candidate for the Council , announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy , saying that he had been registered as a collaborator with the StB in the 1970s . |
| 13 | Another was that he had been elected to the Students ' Council at his school , Westmount High , and to its Board of Publishers . |
| 14 | Indeed , it was largely because of this stance of old-fashioned industrial unionism that he had been elected in the first place . |
| 15 | A notable illustration of this complexity even among hard-core racists was the NF official who pointed out that he had been elected by both black and white work mates , despite his well-known NF affiliation , because he fought equally hard for blacks and whites ; he claimed a liking for blacks and maintained that he played football and drank with them , although politically he supported repatriation . |
| 16 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 17 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 18 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 19 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 20 | He was quite prepared now to admit that he had been mistaken about Marie : that she was not thick and that , though she was not very articulate , she was , in her way , intelligent , kind , even sensitive . |
| 21 | Ramsay decided and declared that he had been mistaken in staying on in Berwick thus long . |
| 22 | Lee claimed that he had been libelled in an article published in December 1987 dealing with the arrest earlier that year of a group of Catholic lay workers supposedly involved in a " Marxist conspiracy " [ see p. 37086 ] . |
| 23 | But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find . |
| 24 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 25 | On July 11 a police corporal was shot dead during an unsuccessful attempt by 100 provincial police to storm the barricade ; some reports claimed that he had been killed in cross-fire . |
| 26 | It was known that he had been archbishop of Canterbury between 1006 and 1012 , and that he had been killed by the Danes for refusing to pay Danegeld . |
| 27 | Local ANC members claimed that he had been killed by members of the Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) who were training Inkatha youths locally . |
| 28 | A CLERGYMAN who trains priests yesterday said he was saddened but not surprised that he had been sacked after admitting he does not believe in God . |
| 29 | A 13 year old boy from Kent described as ‘ borderline autistic ’ reported to his mother that he had been buggered by another pupil at his residential school . |
| 30 | Eye-witnesses denied this , however , saying that he had been engaged in a ‘ fair ’ stand up fight , but that when other people joined in he had fallen and struck his head on a tramline . |